diff --git a/src/khoj/processor/embeddings.py b/src/khoj/processor/embeddings.py
index fbcddb67..fcd88d80 100644
--- a/src/khoj/processor/embeddings.py
+++ b/src/khoj/processor/embeddings.py
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 from typing import List
 
-from langchain.embeddings import HuggingFaceEmbeddings
-from sentence_transformers import CrossEncoder
+from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer, CrossEncoder
 
 from khoj.utils.helpers import get_device
 from khoj.utils.rawconfig import SearchResponse
@@ -10,17 +9,15 @@ from khoj.utils.rawconfig import SearchResponse
 class EmbeddingsModel:
     def __init__(self):
         self.model_name = "thenlper/gte-small"
-        encode_kwargs = {"normalize_embeddings": True, "show_progress_bar": True}
+        self.encode_kwargs = {"normalize_embeddings": True}
         model_kwargs = {"device": get_device()}
-        self.embeddings_model = HuggingFaceEmbeddings(
-            model_name=self.model_name, encode_kwargs=encode_kwargs, model_kwargs=model_kwargs
-        )
+        self.embeddings_model = SentenceTransformer(self.model_name, **model_kwargs)
 
     def embed_query(self, query):
-        return self.embeddings_model.embed_query(query)
+        return self.embeddings_model.encode([query], show_progress_bar=False, **self.encode_kwargs)[0]
 
     def embed_documents(self, docs):
-        return self.embeddings_model.embed_documents(docs)
+        return self.embeddings_model.encode(docs, show_progress_bar=True, **self.encode_kwargs).tolist()
 
 
 class CrossEncoderModel: